Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.


The second sex (ed. Vintage, 1953)

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.